A team of federal safety investigators to Alaska's Kenai Peninsula last Monday to determine the cause of air taxi aircraft crashed and burned in fishing communities Soldotna Airport, killing all 10 people on board.
De Havilland Otter pontoon DHC3 single-engine plane, the area operated by the charter company based Rediske Air, crashed in Soldotna Airport, about 80 miles southwest of Anchorage, shortly after 11 am local time on Sunday point and found no survivors.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss said the plane crashed on takeoff and apparently occurred is considered to be a high priority mechanism, because the plane was air taxi, which is held to a higher standard than the general aviation aircraft.
Weiss said that a six person NTSB "team" has been assembled probe causes of the crash and the flight to Alaska on Monday, will be joined by the researchers state.
Anchorage NTSB member Earl Weener told reporters, after the initial ground surveys will take five to eight days for the final report could take a year to complete.
Authorities have not publicly identified any crash victims, but the Anchorage Daily News "reported that the pilot was 42-year-old Walter · Rediske, jointly owned Rediske Air.
The Soldotna Police Department said that all passengers are considered to be from South Carolina, it is working with authorities to notify next of kin.
9 passengers, including a five and a separate family of four, both from Greenville, South Carolina, who was on vacation, and in southern Alaska's Lake Clark headed bear watching hut, according to South Carolina State a newspaper countries.
Soldotna Police officials said 10 bodies have been recovered and sent the state medical examiner's office in Anchorage identification and autopsy.
Rediske sightseeing charter airlines and air taxi services, according to a configuration file, the Better Business Bureau. A spokeswoman for the company declined to comment on Monday.
Central Emergency Services Capt. Leslie Quelland told the "Daily News", the agency's aircraft fire firefighters first arrived, "When we see the birds leave the station immediately," about three kilometers away.
When firefighters arrived on the scene, she said: "The plane crashed in the side of the runway, which is fully involved in flames."
There are over 300 people on board crashed the day before, Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed while attempting to land at San Francisco airport on Saturday, killing two Chinese teenagers more than 180 people were injured.
The mountainous southern Kenai Peninsula Anchorage, tourists, fishermen and a popular hiking destination.
 



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